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Totem Poles at Kitwanga ca 1915Credit: William
James Topley/Library and Archives Canada/PA-011216

DisclaimerI am fully aware the First Nation Population were here,
long before the European History shown on my pages.
I will leave the Native History to them.
I have trouble doing the last hundred years!
Note- Some of the men listed below are First Nation Ancestry

Oct 17/19- Crib and Pier
of the Ellsworth bridge
at Kitwanga washed away with flooding.

1943

Dec 21, 1943
P/O R.F.W. Sedgewick's Hurricane plunged into the
Skeena River
after his Hurricane struck a cable of the Kitwanga ferry

Post Office History

Name of Office: Kitwanga

Federal Electoral District:
Skeena (BC)

Office opened Jan 1,
1910

Former Name- Gitwangak, changed Aug 1, 1917

Postmaster Information:

Name of
Postmaster

Military
Status

Date of
Appointment

Date of
Vacancy

Cause of
Vacancy

Reverend Alfred
Edwin Price

1910-01-01

1911-03-15

Resignation

Horace DuVernet

1911-06-01

1914

Change of site

Joseph Augustus
Sampare

1914-06-23

1917-01-27

Resignation

Robert Alfred
Sampare

1917-03-01

1931-08-27

Death

Joseph Augustus
Sampare

1932-01-30

1946-06-10

Resignation

Mrs. Katie Rowe

1946-07-15

Acting

-

"

1946-10-17

1946-12-28

Resignation

Evan Lewis
Davies

1947-02-01

Acting

-

"

1947-04-23

1955-04-01

Resignation

Norman Graham
Simpson

OAS

1955-09-09

Acting

-

"

1955-11-10

1960-04-07

Resignation

George Edward
Brown

OAS

1960-06-30

Acting

-

"

1960-08-12

1960-12-02

Resignation

Eldon Lynn
Nelson

1960-12-03

Acting

-

"

1961-09-08

1966-07-19

Resignation

Mrs. Marjorie
Lynn Nelson

1966-11-17

Acting

-

Mrs. Marjorie
Elaine Ward

1966-12-29

-

-

Additional Information:

Dwelling - 1946-07-15

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nor as having been made in affiliation with,
or with the endorsement of the National Archives of Canada.
The source of this material is the National Archives of Canada

First Post Master
Rev. Alfred Edwin Priceb- 1863, in England, age 55, widow, in 1919
d- 1931
He built the St. Paul Church in Kitwanga in 1893,
also a school here.
Missionary with the Church Missionary Society from 1889 to 1912 in
Kitwanga
He moved on to Massett and Metlakatla
His diary is in the BC Archives
son of Frederick Thomas Price and Amelia Clare
married 1st, Elizabeth Anstee, May 10, 1888 in Victoria BC
they had a son Reginald Price
married 2nd, Elizabeth Jane Soal, Mar 20, 1919 St. Andrew's Church,
Prince Rupert
b- in England, age 46 in 1919
d-
daughter of William Soal and Mary Anne Harknett
see link below

2nd he married- Lilian Monica Pretoria King
b- Mar 27, 1901
d- May 18, 1983
Horace had 3 children by one or both, of the women above
a Mrs. Horace Duvernet left Kitwanga, BC
in July 1925, for Greenville, Greenville Co. SC,
where her husband, Horace went some time before
article says it was 13 years, before 1925, the family went to
Shandilla
on the Skeena river, also called the DuVernet farm.
one a son H. Duvernet, possibly Henry?
there is a Duvernet Dr near Greenville, SC

Evan Lewis Daviesb- Feb 11, 1885 Lampeter, Wales
d- Sept 28, 1963, Prince Rupert General Hospital, age 78
occupation Telegrapher,
when he married he lived at Telegraph Point, Souris River
when he died he was a widow
married Grace Beatrice Taylor, Dec 6, 1914 in Metlakatla BC
b- Putney, Surrey, age 34 when she married
daughter of George B. Taylor

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